Abstract

High-fidelity simulation has been utilized in healthcare education for many years. This modality allows students to comprehend complex concepts and be able to create meaningful links between nursing, medical diagnosis, and concepts learned in the classroom. Nursing students that are exposed to a simulation experience that produces stress, anxiousness, and fear can demonstrate a decrease in learning, level of retaining information, self-efficacy, competence, academic performance, learner proficiency, learner confidence, as well as anxiety and frustration when acclimating to new simulation environment. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of a pre-high-fidelity simulation orientation session on Associate Degree Nursing Students' high-fidelity simulation-related anxiousness. A study that investigates the outcomes of an implementation of an orientation session prior to the students' first high-fidelity simulation experience could have beneficial factors to nursing practice, future research, education, and leadership practices. A quantitative quasi-experimental research design with pre- and post-intervention tests was utilized to assess nursing students' anxiousness levels with regards to high-fidelity simulation-based learning in the introductory simulation session. The PDSA model and Pekrun's theoretical framework 'The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions' (CVTAE) guided this study. Convenience and purposive sampling was utilized to gather nursing students enrolled in an Associate Degree nursing program who are scheduled to begin high-fidelity simulation for the first time within the nursing curriculum. The project argues that high-fidelity simulation causes great anxiousness in nursing students and anxiousness can be decreased with the implementation of a high-fidelity orientation session.

Diana C. Galvez

Author Details

Diana C. Galvez, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN

Sigma Membership

Theta Alpha

Type

DNP Capstone Project

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Quasi-Experimental Study, Other

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

High-Fidelity Simulation, Anxiousness, Nursing Education, Orientation Sessions

Advisors

Chapman, Kim||Foley, Jo Anne

Degree

DNP

Degree Grantor

Regis College

Degree Year

2023

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2024-01-18

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